Andrea Junker 
I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts and real estate”.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
August@Strandjunker Pssst: we live in a capitalist economy. Greed and capital accumulation rules. This is not a liberal society.
Dame Holly@adolfo Oh dear God can people just learn what words mean, please. It's driving me crazy!
Pssst: A liberal is a liberal democrat, which is a centre right philosophy fundamentally grounded in capitalism.
You may as well have said "we live in a capitalist economy, this is not a capitalist society" and, you know, the AI sent to parse that paradox just crashed and burned with smoke coming out of its servers.
Reay Jespersen@DameHolly @adolfo Also, what self-titled capitalists call capitalism, isn’t: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/09/commissar-merck/